Looks kinda meh, and I'm pretty sure it won't be given the support it deserves. Those hybrids are always a risk, and SHs don't want to invest on them.

We'll see a few first party titles, and some third party ones, and then the support will be dropped dead. I'm SO seeing this going the N-Gage way

The only way to save this, would be to price it REALLY aggressively, like $299 max.

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Hopefully they'll make the PSP phone exactly that, a Phone that plays PSP games. Don't Sony want to go all 'Digital Distribution'? With the speeds of HSPA connections these days, this seems like logical progression to me.

I can't see this going the way of the N-Gage, Nokia over-hyped the hell out of that knowing full well Piracy would kill 3rd party support. Plus Sony is recognized as a legitimate games console manufacturer, they won't let it fail.

I don't actually like the phone as it is now, but if it ever comes to fruition, there will be a couple of generations of it, I'm sure of that.

Hopefully they'll make the PSP phone exactly that, a Phone that plays PSP games. Don't Sony want to go all 'Digital Distribution'? With the speeds of HSPA connections these days, this seems like logical progression to me.
It has Android on it, and it also has a COMPLETELY different hardware in it, most probably. It WON'T even emulate PSP games, since you'd need really powerful hardware to emulate it.

At most, ports of the games. In that case, people will just buy a cheap PSP, and nobody will even care about the PSP Phone.

Hopefully they'll make the PSP phone exactly that, a Phone that plays PSP games. Don't Sony want to go all 'Digital Distribution'? With the speeds of HSPA connections these days, this seems like logical progression to me.
It has Android on it, and it also has a COMPLETELY different hardware in it, most probably. It WON'T even emulate PSP games, since you'd need really powerful hardware to emulate it.

At most, ports of the games. In that case, people will just buy a cheap PSP, and nobody will even care about the PSP Phone.

Maybe you open the PlayStation application and it boots up the PSP firmware?

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You'd still need the PSP hardware, or hardware powerful enough to emulate the PSP. Either way, expensive shit!

Actually, thinking about it, there's some seriously powerful mobile hardware out there these days, I don't think it's such an outrageous idea, having a PSP emulator on a phone. However, I think it's beyond SE's capabilities to make a phone that good!

Huh... the background looks a bit too much like that of PSP's XMB.
Maybe you will be able to play PSP games on it...?
Oh well, let's keep referring to it as PlayStation Phone. Misleading title is misleading .

Huh... the background looks a bit too much like that of PSP's XMB.
Maybe you will be able to play PSP games on it...?
Oh well, let's keep referring to it as PlayStation Phone. Misleading title is misleading .

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The PS3 had almost the same XMB as the PSP, initially, but that didn't mean you could also play PSP games on it!

The PS3 had almost the same XMB as the PSP, initially, but that didn't mean you could also play PSP games on it!

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I just meant the background... I'm not sure if it even uses the XMB, but it certainly has that wave-y thingy. A bit off-topic but seeing as how they're even porting Dolphin to PS3, a PSP emulator may not be far (The PC PSP emulator has made a lot of progress, maybe it can be ported?), so maybe you WILL be able to play them someday . And if we add the fact that the minis were PSP exclusives, but are now playable on PS3... .

Doesn`t look bad imo. I guess there`s Android on it as the OS?! Never had an Android phone so I can`t really comment on the games on the plattform...

I honestly think Apple would be wise to have a gaming edition of their next version of the iPhone with an extractable d-pad similar to this, since it still cannot compete with Sony and Nintendo in the pure gaming-handheld-space because of it`s control limitation but with the option of having buttons in addition to a touch-screen they could participate in the market in a serious manner rather then having flash-like-games (which are still really fun )...

I`m really surprised, that this kind of phone is first made by Sony-Erickson but maybe Apple doesn`t want to separate their userbase as much as they already have with all their phone-version with big to slight performance- and capability-differences!